PhDr., Mgr. Júlia Bukovinská is a Slovak musicologist, music publicist, organizer of regional music life and pedagogue. She studied piano at the Košice Conservatory with Ludmila Kojanova, music theory at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts and became a Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (musicology) at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University.
She has worked at the Department of Music Education at the Faculty of Education in Prešov and since 1991 she has been teaching music history, aesthetics and diploma seminar at the Conservatory in Košice. She developed scripts on the subject of music history, which later became the basis for the publication Malá encyclopédia hudby I-IV (1999-2002).
She is a member of the Slovak Musical Union, the Slovak Syndicate of Journalists, the History Society in Košice, organizes the contemporary art festival Ars Nova Cassoviae, co-founder and administrator of the Hemerkov Music Society, co-founder and dramaturge of the Musical Resonances Festival, member of the festival committee of the Košice Musical Spring and the International Organ Festival in Košice. She has published over 300 scholarly articles and reviews in Musical Life, Aesthetic Education, National Revival and regional press. She is the author of encyclopaedic entries, book reviews and accompanying texts for bulletins. She founded the edition Kapitoly z dejín hudobného života v Košiciach (Chapters from the History of Musical Life in Košice) and initiated the organization of musicological conferences in Košice (2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013).
In 2006 she was awarded the Košice Mayor's Award for her extraordinary meritorious work in favour of the cultural life of the city of Košice and her publishing activities within the history of musical culture in Košice. In 2010, together with Jozef Podprocký for the Hemerkov Musical Society, she received the Award of the Mayor of Košice for merit in researching the history of music, promoting the creation and performance art of Košice and the East-Slovak region.